@basket Sorry about the tone of my previous reply and thanks for your highly gracious response. Truth be told I’m exhausted - emotionally, mentally - and thinking, my god, he’s 6. I have another dozen years ahead and everyone tells me that JUST GETS HARDER. Does not help to have a workaholic husband (MD doing noble work so I can’t really complain). So sometimes I have a big old pity party.
Parenting is nothing remotely like what I see among my friends and family experiencing it with similar-age kids. It is so much work and heartache. Just his morning I set-up a whole ‘boy’ valentine making station: lego stickers galore, forbidden markers, lots of cool paper. One was made. I tried to coax, to work side-by-side, but the whole project was declared ‘boring.’ I felt that this was the kind of thing that should be fun not mandated so I cleaned it all up.
On the upside I we love snuggling up with books together. There’s that and that’s big.
Anyway thanks again for your thoughtfulness.